WikiLeaks Leaks 2008 Government Plan to “Destroy” WikiLeaks: Read it Here

As a rule, free-Internet types tend to revere WikiLeaks, the wide-open whistleblowers’ clearinghouse for anonymously submitted government and corporate documents. Like Cryptome, it’s come under counterfire for that very reason — the “these websites are an invitation to terrorists” argument — but it’s proven resilient in the face of pressures from censorious world governments and financial troubles.

Apparently, WikiLeaks’ foes may have included none other than the U.S. government. A classified intelligence document published in March of 2008 — leaked today, naturally, by WikiLeaks —  evaluates WikiLeaks as a “counterintelligence threat,” refers to the site’s leaks of Guantanamo Bay operating procedures and information on U.S. use of white phosphorous in the Battle of Fallujah, and lays out a strategy to “destroy [WikiLeaks'] center of gravity:”

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